Was it all the pro-Trump lip-service, for just another Media bait-and switch?
Posted on 05/08/2018 2:08:48 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Roseanne Barr hopes to teach tolerance and compassion in the next installment of her ABC sitcom.
On Tuesday’s episode of Roseanne, a Muslim family living next door to the Conners elicits such fear in Roseanne that she starts to believe they’re about to build a bomb out of fertilizer piled near their garage.
“What if this is a sleeper cell full of terrorists getting ready to blow up our neighborhood?” she asks her sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf). “Any time something bad happens, it’s always somebody who lives next door to somebody.”
Ultimately, Roseanne is forced to face her prejudice by approaching the neighbors and asking for their Wi-Fi code to help her granddaughter. What transpires over the episode is lots of ignorance covered up in punchlines, with Roseanne ultimately realizing there is more to the folks next door than a pile of stinky dirt.
And it was all Barr’s idea. In this interstitial released by ABC, Dave Caplan, co-executive producer, confirms that it was the star’s idea to do a story about Muslim neighbors. He says the writers didn’t need much convincing. (ABC would not make the executive producers available for further comment).
“She wanted to get a comeuppance for her own bias,” Caplan says in the interstitial, adding, “that was her idea.”
The episode was completed before the comedy’s March 27 premiere, but it comes at a time when the show could definitely use a buzz boost: The sitcom has lost 43 percent of its audience since its behemoth start; last week’s episode averaged 10.3 million viewers and a 2.5 rating in adults 18-49.
Meanwhile, Barr isn’t exactly fostering good will on social media. As a Trump supporter, the actress has come to the President’s defense with a nonsensical tweet about freeing children from bondage all over the world. And just last week, she sparred with Stormy Daniels. The episode about the Muslim neighbors with all that fertilizer airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. on ABC.
It is programming of us and nothing more.
Her ratings are starting to plummet. I wonder why? /sarc
Is it true that the Muslim daughter has a clitorectomy as a witty subplot.
Sick, evil, twisted monsters. Muslims and ANY sympathizers.
Right after 9-11 I called the tipline they had set up.
There was a local KFC fast food joint that didn’t have the flag at half-mast. I went in to politely tell them. The place was empty, with three muslims working there - looked like a family.
“No work- rope no work!”
I went out to the flag pole and magically got it to work with no effort, and brought it down to half-mast. (Seeing I was on their property with a bunch of muslims looking out the window, I didn’t follow protocol by bringing it all the way down and back up again.) When I got home I called the tip number.
Maybe it’s a setup. 6 episodes later the teenage son goes off to join Isis or runs over people in a Memorial Day parade.
We had a few of them in my home town...and they’re in jail now.
+1
Was it all the pro-Trump lip-service, for just another Media bait-and switch?
Was it all the pro-Trump lip-service...
Same old, same old. Americans are a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobes.
I have always asked that question of people when they complain about 'this' show or 'that' show.
"Why do you think they call it 'programming'?
Exactly.
“Roseanne doing an episode about Muslim neighbors at Roseanne Barr’s urging”
Riiiight...
Keeping up with the Jones is no reason to lose your head.
Anyone care to comment or point me to another thread about the lgbt crap on NBC’s Timeless Sunday night.
It’s all a ploy to enlighten conservatives.
I won’t be watching.
I would like to see the reaction of the muslims to their grandson who dresses as trans something or other.
They would throw the kid off the roof.
So you love muslims is that your point? And adore Rosy? You can’t possibly be that ignorant of Islam or can you? Or are you just being a troll?
“So you love muslims is that your point?”
Yeah, that’s totally what it is. Nailed it like a nuke aimed at a thumbtack.
You are thumb tack sized, eh troll?
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